Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 85 96
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +49
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 46 35 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.14% 1.48% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 1.78% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 39
10th Percentile £463 £463 £478
25th Percentile £500 £593 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £650 £505
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +28.71% -12.17%
75th Percentile £625 £766 £627
90th Percentile £669 £850 £652
England median daily rate £575 £622 £630
% change year-on-year -7.56% -1.27% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% - -
England median hourly rate £81.00 £26.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +211.54% +15.56% -70.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,913 1,970 2,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.85% 83.33% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 1,145 1,682
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £553 £588 £594
90th Percentile £661 £678 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 107 163
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.40 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.38 £27.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £57.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.42 £70.90 £66.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +13 28 £575 -26.98% 42
Cheshire -20 7 £475 -23.39% 26
Merseyside -2 4 £625 - 8
Cumbria - 4 £550 - 1
Lancashire 0 3 £638 +21.43% 27
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.35%) Moodle
3 1 (2.17%) CICS
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.17%) Skype for Business
3 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (2.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) AWS
1 11 (23.91%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) GCP
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (10.87%) Apigee
3 5 (10.87%) GitHub
3 5 (10.87%) PaaS
3 5 (10.87%) SaaS
3 5 (10.87%) Serverless
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (8.70%) Datadog
4 4 (8.70%) Loggly
4 4 (8.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) SAN
2 1 (2.17%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.17%) LAN
2 1 (2.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) Skype
2 1 (2.17%) WAN
2 1 (2.17%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.87%) BigQuery
2 5 (10.87%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
2 5 (10.87%) NoSQL
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (8.70%) MySQL
3 4 (8.70%) RDBMS
3 4 (8.70%) Redis
3 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.35%) Big Data
4 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.17%) Looker
5 1 (2.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) JIRA
3 4 (8.70%) Gradle
3 4 (8.70%) Maven
3 4 (8.70%) SonarLint
3 4 (8.70%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.35%) GitLab
5 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Military
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.17%) Automotive
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (52.17%) Architect
2 13 (28.26%) Technical Architect
3 11 (23.91%) Lead
4 7 (15.22%) Java Architect
4 7 (15.22%) Java Technical Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Lead Software Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Developer
7 3 (6.52%) SailPoint Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Moodle Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Test Leader
9 1 (2.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Lead Developer
9 1 (2.17%) Senior Tester
9 1 (2.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Kafka
1 6 (13.04%) RESTful
2 5 (10.87%) Dropwizard
2 5 (10.87%) J2EE
2 5 (10.87%) Micronaut
2 5 (10.87%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.70%) Celery
3 4 (8.70%) JWT
4 3 (6.52%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.52%) SailPoint
5 2 (4.35%) Playwright
5 2 (4.35%) pytest
6 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.17%) ISPF
6 1 (2.17%) Middleware
6 1 (2.17%) OpenAPI
6 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.17%) React
6 1 (2.17%) Swagger
6 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 6 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.87%) N-Tier
3 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Clustering
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.17%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.17%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) PKI
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Mentoring
2 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (26.09%) Microservices
4 11 (23.91%) Agile
4 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
5 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.22%) Architectural Design
6 7 (15.22%) DevOps
6 7 (15.22%) TOGAF
7 6 (13.04%) Coaching
7 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (13.04%) Event-Driven
7 6 (13.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (13.04%) Migration
7 6 (13.04%) SDLC
7 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
7 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (13.04%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Java
2 11 (23.91%) Python
3 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.04%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) Bicep
5 1 (2.17%) CLIST
5 1 (2.17%) JCL
5 1 (2.17%) REXX
5 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.17%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.17%) CISSP
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) GIAC
5 1 (2.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.17%) SOC 1
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.87%) Terraform
3 4 (8.70%) Ansible
3 4 (8.70%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) CA Endevor
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.17%) OMEGAMON
5 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Gigya
4 3 (6.52%) IBM
5 2 (4.35%) Capita
5 2 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (2.17%) Citrix
6 1 (2.17%) F5
6 1 (2.17%) HP
6 1 (2.17%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (2.17%) SAP
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) VMware